20-page Powerpoint keynote address given at the Sustaining Conflict Resolution Education: Building Bridges to the Future conference in Fairfax, VA, which reviewed “the CRE field from the vantage point of Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR).”
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Bias awareness workshop
12-page Powerpoint presentation given at the Sustaining Conflict Resolution Education: Building Bridges to the Future conference in Fairfax, VA, which looked at “celebrating one’s culture, examine[d] personal, cultural and institutional forms of bias and develop[ed] strategies to effectively respond to bias.” Includes a Creative Responses to Bullying Bibliography.
World of possibilities: CRE and peace education around the globe, A
34-page Powerpoint presentation given at the Sustaining Conflict Resolution Education: Building Bridges to the Future conference in Fairfax, VA, which “presents summaries of several important activities related to global expansion of conflict resolution education and peace education.”
Making class matter and engaging difference
42-page Powerpoint presentation given at the Sustaining Conflict Resolution Education: Building Bridges to the Future conference in Fairfax, VA, which “explore[d] ways to make ideas relevant and memorable so students take the ideas home and apply them to their every day lives, examples will include exercises on how to understand and engage difference well.”
Listening without formulas
15-page Powerpoint presentation given at the Sustaining Conflict Resolution Education: Building Bridges to the Future conference in Fairfax VA, which discusses the use of reflective listening, I-messages and paraphrasing in conflict resolution.
Conflict resolution education in teacher education: Expanding CRE programs and resources
22-page Powerpoint panel discussion presented at the Sustaining Conflict Resolution Education: Building Bridges to the Future conference in Fairfax, VA, which “provided an overview of the CRETE (Conflict Resolution Education in Teacher Education) project … [a] program to provide pre-service teachers and school-based teaching mentors with critical skills and knowledge of conflict resolution education and class room management necessary for cultivating constructive learning environments for children, enhancing student learning and bolstering teacher retention.”
Eight ways to connect with global CR education via creducation.org
46-page Powerpoint presentation given at the Youth and Conflict: Global Challenges – Local Strategies held in Cleveland, Ohio, which “introduces various ways that organizations and individuals working around the world on conflict resolution education and peace education can share their ideas and materials with a larger audience, the focus is on ways to contribute to the Conflict Resolution Education Connection located online at www.creducation.org.”
Gender based violence: Challenging norms, building capacities, promising practices, creating peace
16-page Powerpoint presentation given at the Second International Summit on Conflict Resolution Education which “provide[s] a new context for prevention of intimate partner, domestic and sexual violence, participants will build their capacity to engage in social change work, learn current promising and best practices for intimate partner and sexual violence prevention.”
Cyberbullying and relational aggression: Who is it and what can be done
74-page Powerpoint presentation given at the Second International Summit on Conflict Resolution Education which presents a workshop “designed to help school personnel understand the dynamics underlying indirect aggression, detect indirect aggression, discover who is doing it, and ways they can intervene and prevent this covert form of bullying, results from a study examining the relationship between media and relational aggression and ways to infuse the information into the new anti-bullying legislation in Ohio will be shared, a comprehensive program being used in two Northeast, Ohio schools for teachers, families, and students will also be shared.”
Truancy prevention through mediation program
9-page Powerpoint presentation given at the Second International Summit on Conflict Resolution Education, which “provide[s] an understanding of the structure, philosophy, and value of early intervention truancy mediation as it is practiced in Ohio, the role of the schools, juvenile court, social service agencies, charities, and other entities will be discussed along with information on how to start a program in a community, potential funding sources, the role and training of the mediators, and other relevant material.
Youth & conflict: Global challenges, local strategies, 2008
21-page Powerpoint presentation given at the Second International Summit on Conflict Resolution Education which “introduce[d] some of the themes and research associated with current thinking in values education
Creating and promoting positive school climate in Ohio’s schools: Anti-harassment, anti-intimidation
33-page Powerpoint presentation given at the Second International Summit on Conflict Resolution Education, presenting “A review of an anti-harassment, anti-intimidation or anti-bullying model policy for education from the state of Ohio in the United States.”
Working with angry and disruptive youth in the classroom
8-page Powerpoint presenation given at the Second International Summit on Conflict Resolution Education, which provided, “insights into youth anger and strategies to positively address these challenges in the classroom, participants will understand the reasons behind escalating behavior and will practice how to respond effectively to strong willed and/or out-of-control youth, participants will learn strategies to deescalate emotions, maintain dignity and respect, and help the student focus on learning.”
Effective methods of CRE in Armenia’s schools: Peer-to-peer education implemented by NGO Women for D
40-page Powerpoint presentation given at the Second International Summit on Conflict Resolution Education outlining a program running in Armenia for six years in which, “Teachers and school children received special training and conducted peer-to-peer education for approximately 590 pupils from 29 classes in 10 schools, after the peer-to-peer education, the evaluation showed the effectiveness of using this process to teach CR skills.”
Virginia Tech shooting: Lessons for dismantling norms about violence
10-page Powerpoint presentation given at the Second International Summit on Conflict Resolution Education, which “offers a Preliminary inquiry into pedagogical actions for addressing the intersections among gender, race, ethnicity, social class, mental illness, and violence, the limitations of the thinking that pervaded the recent public discourse on the Virginia Tech Shooting will be revealed and a responsive pedagogical action proposed.”